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Friday, May 16, 2008 at 10:00 am

Pity the Burmese — and the Chinese earthquake victims — this week. Nature struck both, but one government couldn’t, wouldn’t, help its own people.
At home, California gives a green light to gay marriage. West Virginia goes for Clinton. John Edwards goes for Obama. John McCain says he didn’t mean one hundred years in Iraq. He [...]

 
Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 10:00 am

The images out of China are heartbreaking. Whole villages essentially flattened by Monday’s powerful earthquake in mountainous Sichuan province. Schools down. Hospitals down. Grieving families standing in the rain.
And now, news of dams at risk of bursting. Maybe 20,000 dead. Maybe many more.
Beijing has responded with a hundred thousand soldiers and a national call for [...]

 
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